The reception children started back refreshed after a week off school and were soon eagerly recounting their holiday news to friends and teachers! As our first piece of work after the holiday the children made their news writing into a book to share. The children are taking part in the ‘Grow your own potatoes’ competition … Read more
The children have learnt a lot about old toys and the trip to the museum was an ideal opportunity for the children to talk, examine and explore a huge range of toys from the last one hundred or so years. The project on toys finished with ‘junk model’ constructions of toys which was interesting and … Read more
Yet another busy week in reception and only a week to go until half term. This week saw an exciting two day visit by an artist, Chinese New Year, an introduction to ‘old toys’, an introduction to using money and assessment tasks against which we can assess academic progress. As you will have already seen … Read more
The children listened brilliantly to the assembly and responded really well to both the sketching and the painting sessions which followed.Although the colour mixing was quite challenging everybody tried their best and achieved some interesting results.
Our theme of bears continued from last week with all children bringing their teddy to school on Monday. The children used their bears in maths to do some measuring. The teddies were measured with strips of paper to find out which teddy was the tallest. The pieces of paper were put in length order and … Read more
Most of our activities this week centred around the well-known story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In literacy we have been reading different versions of the story. Throughout the week we read books together under the visualiser, encouraging the children to read along and then discussed different aspects of the book. The children were … Read more
Last week the children were looking at different types of birds that they might see when taking part in the ‘Little Schools’ Birdwatch’ project. They had to try and sketch the bird from the photograph they had chosen and paint it with the water colour paints. This was quite a difficult task for the children … Read more
For the last session of the day, those of us who had our boots, wrapped up warm and went for a walk over the school field. Well, who could resisit a huge blanket of untrodden snow?! We built a rather small snowman and then made a ‘magic ring’ of snowballs around him.
If you want to come indoors and warm up after a great morning playing in the snow have a look at the story of Goldilocks on www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-goldilocks.htm. Maybe you have a copy of this story. If you have got one, have a look at it because the story may be told in a different way. … Read more
This week in literacy we have been reading different versions of the well-known story of Little Red Riding Hood. Throughout the week we read books together under the visualiser, encouraging the children to read along. We also watched it on Cbeebies on www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storie The children wrote sentences about pictures from the story using their word … Read more
